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by Beth Braccio Hering, Special to CareerBuilder From parents to retirees to employees fed up with daily commutes, there are many people out there who would like the chance to work from home -- and scammers know it. Christine Durst, co-author of 'Work at Home Now: The No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Your ...

Robert Half International, a well know brand in the field of staffing, also publishes quite a bit in terms of research, as well as the forecasting of employment trends. Here are their projections for 11 hot job areas for 2011. With the term "Hot" here, being defined as a job field that should expect to ...

How much could possibly go wrong hiring someone to walk your dog? The answer it seems is, plenty! That's why some New York City dog owners hire pooch private eye Brock Schwartz, reports the New York Post. Either by trailing the dog-walkers on the streets of Manhattan or by installing doggy cams in ...

Health care continues to be a field that's consistently hiring. Among those being added to the staffs of health-care offices around the nation are "dog assistants." Mental health providers, plastic surgeons, physical rehabilitation specialists, and dementia experts are among those using dogs as part of the ...

New York Life Insurance Company is in the process of hiring about 3,500, mostly in sales and sales management. What the company has found, reports Fortune, is that those who do well in interviews for those jobs include professionals transitioning from the areas of education, social work, real estate, and ...

Organizations have plenty of information, but too many lack the raw brain power to be able to frame their data in ways that would give them a competitive edge. That's where you can come in -- as a brain for hire. Top consulting firms in this niche charge as much as $200,000 a day to train about 25 employees ...

Greg Helwig, Chief Development Officer for Kiddie Academy In this challenging economy where there are six job seekers for every job opening, many would be surprised to learn that one viable option is to take your employment matters into your own hands by starting a franchise business. For those with an ...

What's a poor girl to do with a college degree in this economy? If you graduated in the last few years, you know it's been harder than ever to land a decent job -- or any job, for that matter. While the national unemployment rate hovers around 9.5 percent, the rate for workers ages 16-24 is 19.6 percent -- the ...

These days, the term "humble civil servant" can be a bit of a misnomer. The U.S. Dept. of Labor (DOL) currently has more than 100 job openings -- and some of them, like the Information Technology Specialist in Washington, D.C., and the Mine Safety and Health Specialist in Arlington, VA, come with six-figure ...